2 cups cooked rice (I use brown rice, short grain or basmati)
1 cup of bread crumbs
3/4 cup of soy milk
1/2 teaspoon sage or marjoram
4 tablespoons of chopped onion
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 cup chopped walnuts
salt (can be left out, or substitue tamari)

Saute onions, seasoning and oil in skillet or small sauce pan. Add milk and salt. Bring to a boil, then pour over the crumbs. Let stand for 10 minutes. Add nuts, mix in the steamed rice. Form into small patties and brown.

*Note: this is a very forgiving recipe. You can add a tablespoon of peanut butter which adds a flavor boost and increases nutritional content. Nutritional yeast will also enhance the flavor.
modified from The Back to Eden Cookbook

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

It’s been said that God(DESS) first separated the salt water from the fresh, made dry land, planted a garden, made animals and fish… all before making a human. He made and provided what we’d need before we were born. These are best & more powerful when eaten raw. We’re such slow learners…

God left us a great clue as to what foods help what part of our body!

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Book Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocados, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female – they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 histolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body’s cells. Today’s research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.

SUBJECT: Psalm 46:19
‘Be Still and Know that I AM GOD’

This indicates that we might better take more B6. But many won’t. This is because the public has been warned off of supplementing with this vitamin. So irrational is this fear that, at one point, a so-called “Safe Upper Limit” for daily B6 intake was set at only 10 mg. (6) That was only about six times the US RDA/DRI. Who set such a “limit”? Not the voters, that’s for sure. An unelected committee did it, one created by the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board. (5) They have, in a manner of speaking, recently admitted that they were wrong. The “Safe Upper Limit” is now 100 mg.

That is more like it, but still too low. Alan Gaby, M.D., in reviewing B6 toxicity, wrote that adverse effects from B6 (pyridoxine) were occurring in people taking “2,000 mg/day or more of pyridoxine, although some were taking only 500 mg/day. There is a single case report of a neuropathy occurring in a person taking 200 mg/day of pyridoxine, but the reliability of that case report is unclear. The individual in question was never examined, but was merely interviewed by telephone after responding to a local television report that publicized pyridoxine-induced neuropathy.” Dr Gaby adds that there have been no reports of B6 side effects at under 200 mg/day. (6)

Modern processed, low-nutrient diets are not providing anything close to 200 milligrams. In fact, they typically provide less that 1% of that amount. You can get some B-6 from food, if you really like to eat whole grains, seeds and organ meats. A goodly slice of beef liver contains a whopping 1.2 mg of B-6. Chicken liver is only 0.6 mg per serving, and most other foods contain less. Avocados (0.5 mg each) and bananas (0.7 mg each) lead the pyridoxine league for fruits. Potatoes (0.7 mg each) and nuts (especially filberts, peanuts and walnuts) are fairly good vegetable sources.

But people are not eating nuts, seeds, vegetables, and liver. What they are eating is way too many nutrient-poor junk foods. Our diets are low in B6, yet B6 reduces risk of colon cancer. Clearly supplementation is the way to go.

Orthomolecular Medicine News
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Tools: requires a blender
Almonds: pre-soak in water for 2 days. Or soak overnight, the soaking process increases digestibility.

3 cups water
3/4 cup of pre-soaked and peeled almonds
1 tablespoon maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Combine 2 cups of water and the almonds in the blender. Blend for approximately 1 minute. Strain through fine cheesecloth into quart size bowl or jar.

Pour the strained pulp back into the blender and puree with 1 cup of water. Strain into your first batch of almond milk. The leftover pulp can be discarded or can be used as a subtle addition a burger mix or a sauce…be creative.

Mix in the maple syrup and vanilla and stir well. Refrigerate, should last for 2-3 days. Enjoy.

recipe adapted from Veggie Life

almond flowers

Almonds can be used to make a delicious ‘nut milk’. Almond milk can be used as a nutritious beverage, in cereal and as a base for smoothies. Here are a few nutrition benefits of almonds:

• Eating almonds has been shown to lower serum cholesterol and reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
• Almonds are a rich source of phenolic antioxidants and vitamin E and have a demonstrated anti-oxidant effect.
• Alkalizes the blood.
• Helps to build up the body.
• 1 oz of almonds = 164 calories, approx. 23 nuts, 6.0 grams of protein.

The following recipe is very forgiving and you can easily adjust the quantity of nuts/water to your personal taste, as in if you prefer a richer flavor.

Almond Milk

1/2 cup of almonds (soaked overnight)
2 cups of water
vanilla extract (optional) to taste
honey to taste

Place all the ingredients in a blender. Liquefy and strain the liquid. The pulp can be used in other dishes such as muffins or added to gravy.

Enjoy!

by Catherine Carter
photo credit: Joyce Berbig

Walnuts belong to the plant family Juglandaceae. Native Americans used an infusion of the bark to prevent diarrhea. The chewed bark or an infusion was applied to wounds to prevent bleeding. Homeopaths used, Walnut (Juglans regia), the tincture and low potencies for skin eruptions such as blackheads, acne and crusta lactea which is another term for ‘cradle cap’.

Healing Powers of Walnuts:

• can reduce inflammation
• may alleviate pain
• nourish the kidneys-adrenals, nourish the brain and enrich the sperm
• helpful for painful knees and coldness in the back
• have warming properties
• avoid walnuts if you have signs of internal heat, such as anger, red face, tendency to canker sores, loose stools.
• help to remove arterial residues of fat and cholesterol
• helps to reduce serum lipid levels and high blood pressure in normal men (abstract)
• may improve prostate and vascular health of older men (abstract)

An easy way to increase your walnut intake is to sprinkle chopped walnuts over cooked steel cut oats. Or simply add a tablespoon onto your plate to enhance one of your daily meals.

References:

New England Journal of Medicine 1993; 329:358-360, Jul 29, 1993
Nutrition Journal 2008, 7:13 (2 May 2008)
Boericke Homeopathic Materia Medica